Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m.. CBS). Tale of the Comet, with Hal March as a TV comic victimized by the ratings system...
...seven hours, after state troopers had changed the locks on the doors. Herman Talmadge held the Capitol and the governor's mansion until the State Supreme Court 67 days later ruled that he had taken office illegally. But even as he yielded, Georgians understood that a new comet was brilliant in their political...
Horns & Tail. Next January, when the U.S. Senate convenes for the first session of the 85th Congress, the same Southern comet will rise over the national horizon as strapping (6 ft., 196 lbs.) Herman Eugene Talmadge, 43, segregationist and isolationist, takes the seat of one of the U.S.'s great senatorial statesmen, aging (78) and respected Walter George. To outward appearances, Herman has progressed not only beyond his father's viciousness and venom but beyond the uncertainties that haunted the brash youth who seized the governorship in Atlanta that rainy night nearly ten years ago. Smooth and suave...
More than any British aircraft since the ill-starred Comet I, the delta-winged Vulcan bomber has stood as a symbol of Britain's ability to keep abreast of the jet age. One day last week the four-jet, 150,000-lb. Vulcan headed home from a 26,000-mile flight to Australia and back, and R.A.F. officials decided to give it a big welcome at London Airport, where all the world could see and applaud...
...first to report on how the Russians were trying to raise their airline standards to qualify for international competition. In 1953 he scored a beat with details of West Germany's plans to revive Lufthansa, the German airline. In 1954. after the fiasco of the British Comet jetliners, he created a sensation in Britain by reporting that BOAC had contracted to buy U.S. Douglas DC-7s instead of British aircraft. Early in World War II it was Parrish who learned that a shortage of B-17 bomber spare parts was about to cause a cutback in bomber production...